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1.3edit something outRemove unnecessary or inappropriate words, sounds, or scenes from a text, movie, or radio or television program.

‘It's clear that a great deal was edited out of Soderbergh's final cut, and, while the absence of this material doesn't render the storyline incoherent, there are occasions when the narrative becomes choppy.’

‘He also told his staff to make sure those jokes were edited out of those shows if and when they were rerun.’

‘She played the unedited versions of songs - insisting that the meaning was changed when words were edited out.’

‘The best part is that all the waiting has been edited out, and we just get the good bits.’

‘Unfortunately, he said it in a show that was heavily scripted and not something that NBC was prepared for, but I regret that NBC edited it out on the West Coast.’

‘Those Big Brother tactics were edited out of the official White House transcript.’

‘Most of the positive stuff has been edited out for effect, but the message is both clear and encouraging.’

‘The author apparently felt that this scene was too horrific and graphic to present to the audience, so he shrewdly decided to edit them out.’

‘A piano tinkles somewhere in the back of the room and a loud cough interrupts one song: no-one had yet devised the means to edit it out.’

‘Not only are they demanding an apology, the dissidents have also asked for the BBC's assurance that certain scenes will be edited out before the show is sold abroad.’

‘As a consequence that sequence was edited out in some parts of the country.’

‘We'll assume that Brad answered that question but the explanation was edited out for space in the final edition.’

‘The song almost made it into the film but Disney, who monitored every stage of the three-year production process, decided it was too long and edited it out.’

‘He edited this remark out of the printed version of his comments, because he had found that people tended to recall his playful statements more readily than his serious ones.’

‘And so it was edited out and it was actually changed to three times a week!’

‘In the end, this chapter will be edited out of the book, but you or I, or whoever writes it will have a lot of stimulating conversations that may very well unearth other directions for discussion.’

‘However, when someone states something totally and obviously false as a matter of fact, it is up to the paper to either edit the error out, or provide the correct information.’

‘He seems to produce them without prior planning, and there is no effort to edit them out.’

‘I'd had to edit some bits out to make it more concise.’

‘Nah, someone would have edited it out after seeing a rough cut, wouldn't they?’

‘He edits a newspaper that has won so many national and state journalism awards that he displays only the first-place plaques.’

‘In 1838 he founded and briefly edited a newspaper, The Long Islander.’

‘He became a university lecturer, and from 1957 edited The Africanist newspaper.’

‘I'm willing to bet she edited the college newspaper.’

‘He was a writer, philosopher and political activist, and edited several newspapers and magazines.’

‘Nelson was a graduate of Indiana University, where he edited the student newspaper when Ernie Pyle was one of the writers.’

‘If you're suddenly editing a newspaper, it's probably not at all what you thought it was going to be like when you were a writer.’

‘While at Bucknell University, he edited the conservative newspaper, the Sentinel.’

‘He edited newspapers and participated in numerous reform movements.’

‘I edit a call-in programme for BBC Radio Leeds which today will be looking at whether its ever right to lie.’

‘I edited a weekly newspaper in New Orleans and then did some freelancing for Deneuve Magazine.’

‘Yet, she managed to edit a community newspaper in Chennai for a brief period.’

‘For a time wen I was younger, I even edited a fanzine, though this was later abandoned in favour of getting more involved and writing for other people's fanzines.’

‘Kennedy becomes the first woman to edit a national newspaper in Ireland and only the fourth editor of the Irish Times in 40 years.’

‘He has edited the programme for more than 30 years, but if anybody can do it, it is him.’

‘As an information specialist, he edited a military newspaper, the Southern Cross.’

‘He also edited a local newspaper and was a prominent member of the al-Dawa party, which nominally opposes the occupation and calls for Iraq to become an Islamic state.’

‘However, not much is known about the life, times and journalistic career of the legendary poet who had edited several newspapers during the freedom struggle.’

‘He edited that newspaper from 1913 until his death in 1917.’

be the editor of, control the content of, control, direct, run, manage, be in charge of, be responsible for, be at the helm of, be chief of, head, lead, supervise, superintend, oversee, preside over, be the boss of